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energetic, a.|ɛnəˈdʒɛtɪk|
[ad. Gr. ἐνεργητικός active, f. ἐνεργέ-ειν to operate, effect. Now treated as if derived from energy.]
†1. Operative, engaged in action. Obs. rare.
1701Grew Cosm. Sacr. i. i. (R.) If then we will conceive of God truly..we must look upon him..as a being eternally energetick.
2. Powerfully operative.
1651Biggs New Disp. 204 An energetick remedy. 1839G. Bird Nat. Philos. Introd. 33 A most energetic force presiding over the internal constitution of bodies. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §20. 141, I..found an energetic polarity in a mass at some distance below the summit. 1876Tait Rec. Adv. Phys. Sc. vi. 152 The most energetic chemicals.
3. Characterized by energy. Of persons: Strenuously active. Of movements, actions, expressions: Forcible, vigorous, emphatic.
1796Burke Regic. Peace Wks. VIII. 240 The active and energetick part of the French nation, itself the most active and energetick of all nations. 1845Whately Rhet. (1850) 213 Many others, who are allowed to be elegant, are yet by no means vigorous and energetic. 1842A. Combe Physiol. Digestion 126 The active and energetic respiration attendant on cheerfulness and buoyance of spirits. 1876Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Resources Wks. (Bohn) III. 203 The world belongs to the energetic, belongs to the wise. 1881Jowett Thucyd. I. 99 All men are energetic when they are making a beginning.
Hence enerˈgetics n. pl. [on the analogy of mathematics, etc.], the doctrine or science of energy.
1855W. Rankine in Edin. Philos. Jrnl., The basis of the science of energetics. 1881Armstrong in Nature No. 619. 452 That branch of science which..I may provisionally term ‘Animal Energetics’. |
